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Samsung sells a million Galaxy Tabs, ups 2010 estimates 50%

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Re: Samsung sells a million Galaxy Tabs, ups 2010 estimates 50%

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post #19

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That's just an anecdote, not data. Samsung has confirmed that it's devices sold, not shipped.

it's != its The parent comment quotes an original source with two examples of this error, but you are not obligated to repeat it. :-)

Compare

"Samsung has confirmed that it is [the number of] devices sold [that the number refers to]."

with

"Samsung has confirmed that its [Samsung's] devices have sold in quantity."

I think the snake was right. :)

Re: Samsung sells a million Galaxy Tabs, ups 2010 estimates 50%

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Interesting. Is the screen as good as the iPad? (Samsung should be able in this area.) The killer iPad feature for me is that I can browse web pages as on a normal computer. At least my eyes can't handle 7". Does the Galaxy have a trick with its keyboard? In vertical mode, I'd start to get more faults with a smaller keyboard than the iPad.

On paper I think the iPad has better specs for the display. But the Tabs display is very vivid videos almost look 3D. I do not notice a difference between the two. It seems at least for me, that 7 inches is the perfects size for a new style of thumb based typing where you type with your two thumbs. It is really fast and I like it now that I have used it for a little while. If you think about holding a Tab in the vert…

  On paper I think the iPad has better specs for the display.
  But the Tabs display is very vivid videos almost look 3D
Ouch. There is „accurate color representation“ (which IPS offers), and there is „very vivid videos“.

Re: Samsung sells a million Galaxy Tabs, ups 2010 estimates 50%

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Dumb question. Why would someone pay more than an iPad to buy this?

They don't pay more. If we compare apples and apples, Verizon sells this for $30 less. Sprint sells it for about the same price ($10 more over 2 years), after taking into subsidy and higher monthly fees.

Re: Samsung sells a million Galaxy Tabs, ups 2010 estimates 50%

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Something smells fishy here. Fr something that has allegedly sold more than 1M units, I soulve seen at least one in the wild (in NYC). It did nt take long iPads to appear. Who exactly is buying these? Frankly I think if anything Samsing has shipped 1M units, which of course means something entirely different.

I have only seen two iPads so far, because friends of mine bought them. The world's population is bigger than 1 Million by an order of magnitude.

Also, several of my friends at least twittered about playing with Galaxy Tabs, so they are out there in the wild.

Re: Samsung sells a million Galaxy Tabs, ups 2010 estimates 50%

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The most informative comment on the original article was this: "Maybe, but I bet they are talking about units shipped or sold into chain, not sold retail. As assistant manager of an electronics outlet store, I see 30+ iPads leave the store every day, sometimes more, and we are often sending people away to wait for the next shipment. This is a city of only 300,000 and we are not the only seller. We've had the Galaxy P…

How is that informative? That it supports your gut feelings?

There is nothing informative about that. It's notable that Canada is remarkably iOS centric (one of the most anywhere), so values here don't necessarily translate- http://gs.statcounter.com/#mobile_os-CA-monthly-200911-20101...

Re: Samsung sells a million Galaxy Tabs, ups 2010 estimates 50%

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post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On paper I think the iPad has better specs for the display. But the Tabs display is very vivid videos almost look 3D. I do not notice a difference between the two. It seems at least for me, that 7 inches is the perfects size for a new style of thumb based typing where you type with your two thumbs. It is really fast and I like it now that I have used it for a little while. If you think about holding a Tab in the vert…

On paper I think the iPad has better specs for the display. But the Tabs display is very vivid videos almost look 3D Ouch. There is „accurate color representation“ (which IPS offers), and there is „very vivid videos“.

The Tab has an IPS display as well.

Though of course IPS (S-IPS) by itself means nothing. The iPhone 4 has a bad color gamut. It's bright and very dense, but it is quite heavily undersaturated, and not in any way from an "accuracy" perspective.

Re: Samsung sells a million Galaxy Tabs, ups 2010 estimates 50%

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post #2

Something smells fishy here. Fr something that has allegedly sold more than 1M units, I soulve seen at least one in the wild (in NYC). It did nt take long iPads to appear. Who exactly is buying these? Frankly I think if anything Samsing has shipped 1M units, which of course means something entirely different.

Rest of Asia and EU. Bunch of Galaxys here.

Re: Samsung sells a million Galaxy Tabs, ups 2010 estimates 50%

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post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On paper I think the iPad has better specs for the display. But the Tabs display is very vivid videos almost look 3D Ouch. There is „accurate color representation“ (which IPS offers), and there is „very vivid videos“.

The Tab has an IPS display as well. Though of course IPS (S-IPS) by itself means nothing. The iPhone 4 has a bad color gamut. It's bright and very dense, but it is quite heavily undersaturated, and not in any way from an "accuracy" perspective.

Alas, accurate colors tend to look undersaturated to those used to boosted vividity.

Re: Samsung sells a million Galaxy Tabs, ups 2010 estimates 50%

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post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Tab has an IPS display as well. Though of course IPS (S-IPS) by itself means nothing. The iPhone 4 has a bad color gamut. It's bright and very dense, but it is quite heavily undersaturated, and not in any way from an "accuracy" perspective.

Alas, accurate colors tend to look undersaturated to those used to boosted vividity.

I'm saying that from a scientific measurement perspective the iPhone display is very undersaturated. It is more than just a perception thing.
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